What is the ACR doing to support members entering practice for the first time?

MACRA and Informatics

How do technology tools factor in to new reimbursement models — and what does it all mean for radiology?

As I'm sure you've heard, 2017 is the first performance period of the MACRA-derived Quality Payment Program (QPP). The QPP includes two payment pathways, and almost all radiologists will be scored under the Merit-Based Payment System (MIPS).

Radiologists and Internet Transparency: You Can Run but You Cannot Hide

Do you know what your patients are posting about you? It's time to look.

Locked away in dark reading rooms, insulated from patients and referring physicians, radiologists can nearly double their RVU production — and that translates into a hefty income differential. Working in isolation, it might seem, can be quite lucrative.

What You Mean to Population Health

How will shifting health care models affect radiology's role in patient care?

Fifteen years ago, population health was a "relatively new term, not yet precisely defined." Today, population health — and more specifically population health management — is on most medical specialists' minds, even if they aren't sure exactly how it will affect their practices and their patients.

Cambodia's Lost Generation

Radiologists trace the collapse of Cambodia's health care system and the road to recovery.

In December 2010, Morlie L. Wang, MD, sat on a flight to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, reading a Lonely Planet travel book. Busy with preparation, it was the first time she had been able to read about Cambodia's history, despite her plans to spend a month in the small Asian country on a Goldberg-Reeder travel grant.

Antitrust in Medicine

In the past, we have written extensively about the concept of antitrust law while noting that the government seemed to show little interest in using it to regulate consolidation in the hospital and medical insurance areas.1, 2